The Black Cat
From the jungles of Ancient America to the deserts and crime-ridden streets of coastal California, the mysterious Were-Jaguar haunts the shadows in search of it's prey. For thousands of years this terrifying creature has been silent, but now it hunts again...

Clint Ryan and his men struggle to complete the task of cutting a ranch out of the wilderness. When he's asked by neighboring Indians to kill a child-murdering grizzly, he reluctantly says no. The griz is revered by the Yocuts, so their own braves cannot kill the monster, yet this long hunt would set Clint back to far. But bad luck haunts Clint, the Stoke's boys want his land and money.

All is well at first, when Tina and her mom relocate to Templeton, Maine from California. School, work. That friendly, small town vibe. Everyone knows everyone. But Templeton has a history. A history that doesn't want to be discovered.

Aliens arrive on Earth years before the birth of Christ. Murder, resurrection, defeat, and
success give the aliens reason to set up their community in a very rural Idaho community. The aliens possess abilities to discourage detection,while openly interacting with humans. Bigfoot is finally exposed, only to eliminate the exposing human.

Shawna Stone is a girl who's destined to be a no one, until she winds up on a California horse ranch with a grandmother she's never known and meets Magic, a doomed horse that "understands" her isolation and her secret desire to destroy herself.

June 2016—Stanford, Ca. GRADUATION for Muki, Abdul, Larry and Judith. It's time for them enjoy the fruits of their labor. A trip to Las Vegas and the blackjack tables before entering the word of commerce and research. They flee Las Vegas and find themselves at an abandoned military complex. Inside is a time machine, which could unravel conspiracies of the past and present.

Mimi LaFleur, septuagenarian party animal, never met a cliché or a man she didn’t like. In this short story, she headlines a conference in Ojai with her uptight, young assistant, Lizzie. Mimi’s built a reputation as a crime-solving grandma on TV, but a compromising photo has found its way into the hands of bestselling author Kayleigh. When Kayleigh’s body is discovered, Mimi’s in hot water.

When an ecological disaster strikes a major U.S. state, it is up to a team of scientists, engineers, and politicians, to find out what went wrong before the problem spreads across the country. The problems mount as internal tensions rise to the surface and cracks threaten to break up both the team as well as the land. . .